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Globalization and Global Society Course S upervisor: Dr. Rong-yang Huang. Outline. Agenda One Agenda Two Agenda Three. Globalization and You. Globalization and Globalism. Is There a “Global Society”?. Globalization and You. What globalization is?.
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Globalization and Global Society Course Supervisor: Dr. Rong-yang Huang
Outline • Agenda One • Agenda Two • Agenda Three Globalization and You Globalization and Globalism Is There a “Global Society”?
What globalization is? • “…a process that embodies a transformation in the spatial organization of social relations and transactions, generating transcontinental or interregional flows and networks of activity, interaction, and power.” (Held & McGrew, 1999)
What globalization is? • It is not a single process but involves four distinct types of “change”: • 1. Stretches (social, political, economic activities across political frontier, regions, and continents.) • 2. Intensified (our dependence on each other, as flows of trade, migration and culture increase.) • 3. Speeds up (the world. Including ideas, goods, information, capital and people.) • 4. Deeper (distant events have a deeper impact on our lives.)
What globalization is? • A “big idea” or cliché? • Can we give it more precisely? • Interconnectedness of everybody? • The absence of hierarchies in global networks? • What limits on the power of government? • What role of individual will be?
From government to governance model Global change flow Multi-centric world State-centric world Governance model transition governance model Government model
Global order Integration Authority Fragmentation Global governance:inclusive words
Micro Macro Global governance flow Changing patterns of global life Changing patterns of global order interaction Individual actor (J. Rosenau, 2000)
Globalization is a paradox • Fragmegration = Fragmentation + Integration • Globalization is a reasonable paradox • Glocalization or global localism
* Democracy deficit: Who is participating in? Who should take responsibility? * Global inequality: Ungovernable regime change
Agenda Two Globalization and Globalism
Globalization: • 1. an objective process • 2. the world is “compressing” • Globalism: • 1. a subjective thought • 2. a global “consciousness” is needed
How to judge globalism? • Global interdependences and movements • Are the poor getting poorer? • Global justice and the bargaining problem • Altering global arrangements • Institutions and inequality • Fair sharing of global opportunities
Global common issues or risks Global governance creation ? Global society? Is it the same as International society? Vague concepts Karen A. Mingst
Agenda Three Is There a “Global Society”?
Governance Transition Governance that is global Governance in the global Do we have the constitution of global civil society? Where are we now?
The fact is….. • Cultural differences continue to matter. • Incompatible between globalized cultural standards and local standards “decoupling”: you talk the talk, but you do not walk the walk. • Hybrid cultures (‘Glocalized’ cultures) are the likely result.
The linkage of regime and governance regime Institutional linkages Institutional linkages Global governance regime regime Regimes network